We still don’t have the whole story on this unprecedented, successful attempt to install a Putin-friendly stooge in the White House. Nor is this timeline of Russian election interference complete — but it’s a start that I’ll keep building on over time.
| Date_orig | Event | People |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-September, 2016 | The FBI receives the Christopher Steele dossier. | Christopher Steele |
| October 3, 2016 | Paul Manafort is still studiously denying his foreign holdings to his tax preparer, responding negatively to his inquiry over email. | Paul Manafort |
| October 7, 2016 | WikiLeaks began releasing John Podesta's stolen emails, an hour after the Access Hollywood tape was released | Julian Assange, John Podesta |
| October 7, 2016 | The Access Hollywood tape is released, in which Trump is caught on a hot mic telling the host of the show that he liked to "grab [women] by the pussy" | Donald Trump |
| October 7, 2016 | The DHS and the ODNI issue a joint public statement, attesting to their findings that the Russian government was responsible for the theft of the thousands of emails and documents from the DNC and Clinton. Nobody sees it because of the next 2 pieces of news... | |
| October of 2016 | The IRA organizes a series of pro-Trump rallies in Pennsylvania | |
| October 24, 2016 | Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko warns that separatists in the east have more tanks than Germany or the UK | Petro Poroshenko |
| November 17, 2016 | Russia blocks the website LinkedIn from its citizens after LI refuses to comply with a 2014 law stating that all user's personal data must be stored on Russian servers, with encryption keys provided to the FSB. | |
| November 23, 2016 | Paul Manafort files false statements in his reluctant FARA document to Attorney General Jeff Sessions | Paul Manafort, Jeff Sessions |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Mike Flynn meets with Kushner and Kislyak to discuss establishing a secret backchannel with Russia | Mike Flynn, Jared Kushner, Sergei Kislyak |
| December of 2016 | Kirill Dmitriev is first introduced to Erik Prince as a way to break in to the new administration | |
| December 29, 2016 | Mike Flynn calls Sergei Kislyak and asks Russia not to escalate or worry about the sanctions -- implying they'd be lifted by the incoming administration | Mike Flynn, Sergei Kislyak |
| December 29, 2016 | The U.S. imposes sanctions on the Russian government for interfering in the 2016 election | Barack Obama |
| December 30, 2016 | Trump tweets: "Great move on delay (by V. Putin)" | |
| December 30, 2016 | Putin announced that Russia would not take retaliatory measures to the sanctions at this time | |
| December 31, 2016 | Kislyak calls Flynn and tells him his request had been heard at the highest levels, and that's why Russia had chosen not to act. | |
| January 6, 2017 | Members of the intelligence community brief President-Elect Trump on a multi-agency certainty that Russia has interfered in the 2016 election and helped him become President at the expense of Hillary Clinton. A public version of the report is released the same day. | |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Buzzfeed publishes the Christopher Steele dossier that's been circulating widely around Washington DC | Christopher Steele, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin |
| January of 2017 | Seychelles meeting between Erik Prince and Kirill Dmitriev to discuss US-Russia relations | |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Mike Flynn is interviewed by the FBI. | Mike Flynn |
| Feb 10, 2017 | Paul Manafort makes additional false statements in connection with his FARA filing. | Paul Manafort, Jeff Sessions |
| February of 2017 | An IRA-controlled Facebook persona claiming to want to teach African-Americans self-defense to protect themselves when contacted by police, hired an actual self-defense instructor in NY to offer classes sponsored by Black Fist | |
| March of 2017 | Sometime this month, DCLeaks.com shuts down | |
| Mar 2, 2017 | Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from oversight of the investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election | Jeff Sessions |
| March 20, 2017 | FBI Director James Comey confirms that the bureau has been investigating both Russian interference and the possibility that the Trump campaign was involved, in testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) | |
| May 9, 2017 | President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey. | Donald Trump, James Comey |
| May 17, 2017 | Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints Robert Mueller as the Special Counsel in charge of investigating the Russian interference and potential Trump cooperation | Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller, Donald Trump |
| October 20, 2017 | Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein confirmed the SCI's investigative authority regarding several individuals and entitities in a memorandum | |
| Nov of 2017 | A Facebook representative testifies on the Hill that they had identified 470 IRA-controlled accounts that made as many as 80,000 posts between January 2015 and August 2017 | |
| Nov of 2017 | The House Committee HPSCI held an open hearing with Facebook, Google, and Twitter about Russia's weaponization of social media during the 2016 election on their platforms. | |
| Nov 30, 2017 | Erik Prince gives testimony before the House HPSCI committee | |
| Dec 1, 2017 | Mike Flynn pleads guilty in court | Mike Flynn |
| Dec 29, 2017 | CNBC pronounces Trump "delusional" in NYT interview | Donald Trump |
| Jan 10, 2018 | Trump lawyer Michael Coehn files a defamation lawsuit against Buzzfeed for the publication of the Steele dossier. | Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Buzzfeed, Christopher Steele |
| January of 2018 | Twitter announces it identified 3814 IRA-controlled Twitter accounts and notified about 1.4 million people they believed to have been in contact with an IRA-controlled account | |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Former President George W. Bush stated publicly that he believes the Russians meddled in the 2016 election. | George W. Bush |
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